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Highlights from the LHCb experiment

We report recent results by the LHCb collaboration in heavy-ion collisions in collider and fixed-target mode at the LHC. A large variety of measurements show the potential of LHCb in nuclear collisions.

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-02-20 Michael Winn

Current status of the LHCf experiment

An important experiment for cosmic ray physics is going to be conducted with the colliding proton beams of the CERN LHC. The equivalent energy of the 14 TeV center of mass energy of the colliding proton beams in the LHC is 1017eV in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 O. Adriani

Results from proton-lead and fixed-target collisions at LHCb

The latest results obtained by the LHCb collaboration from proton-lead and proton-gas fixed-target collisions are presented. Results related to charm and beauty flavour hadron and quarkonia production in proton-lead collisions, being clean…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-04-28 Daniele Marangotto

LHCspin: a Polarized Gas Target for LHC

The goal of the LHCspin project is to develop innovative solutions for measuring the 3D structure of nucleons in high-energy polarized fixed-target collisions at LHC, exploring new processes and exploiting new probes in a unique, previously…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-04-23 A. Accardi , A. Bacchetta , L. Barion , G. Bedeschi , V. Benesova , S. Bertelli , V. Bertone , C. Bissolotti , M. Boglione , G. Bozzi , N. Bundaleski , V. Carassiti , F. G. Celiberto , Z. Chen , G. Ciullo , M. Constantinou , P. Costa Pinto , A. Courtoy , U. D'Alesio , C. De Angelis , E. De Lucia , I. Denisenko , P. Di Nezza , M. Diehl , F. Donato , N. Doshita , O. M. N. Duarte Teodoro , M. G. Echevarria , T. El-Kordy , R. Engels , F. Fabiano , I. P. Fernando , M. Ferro-Luzzi , C. Flore , L. Gamberg , G. R. Goldstein , J. O. Gonzalez-Hernandez , B. Gou , A. Gridin , A. Guskov , C. Hadjidakis , V. Hejny , T. Iwata , D. Keller , N. Koch , A. Kotzinian , J. P. Lansberg , P. Lenisa , X. Li , H. W. Lin , S. Liuti , R. Longo , M. Maggiora , G. Manca , S. Mariani , J. Matousek , T. Matsuda , A. Metz , M. Mirazita , Y. Miyachi , A. Movsisyan , F. Murgia , A. Nass , E. R. Nocera , C. Oppedisano , L. L. Pappalardo , B. Parsamyan , B. Pasquini , M. Pesek , A. Piccoli , C. Pisano , D. Pitonyak , J. Pretz , A. Prokudin , M. Radici , F. Rathmann , M. Rotondo , M. Santimaria , G. Schnell , R. Shankar , A. Signori , D. Sivers , S. Squerzanti , M. Stancari , E. Steffens , L. Sun , H. Suzuki , G. Tagliente , F. Tessarotto , C. Van Hulse , Q. Xu , Z. Ye , J. Zhang

CMS (LHC) Measurements and Unusual Cosmic Ray Events

At the LHC, for the first time, laboratory energies are sufficiently large to reproduce the kind of reactions that occur when energetic cosmic rays strike the top of the atmosphere. The reaction products of interest for cosmic ray studies…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-12-13 E. Norbeck , Y. Onel

The LHCspin project

The goal of LHCspin is to develop, in the next few years, innovative solutions and cutting-edge technologies to access spin physics in polarised fixed-target collisions at high energy, exploring the unique kinematic regime offered by LHC…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-11-09 M. Santimaria , V. Carassiti , G. Ciullo , P. Di Nezza , P. Lenisa , S. Mariani , L. L. Pappalardo , E. Steffens

Recent LHCb results on forward physics and diffraction

The LHCb detector at the LHC offers unique coverage of forward rapidities for studies of Central Exclusive Production (CEP) and soft QCD. CEP measurements allow the investigation of the nature of pomerons, and provide constraints on low-x…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-11-17 Luke McConnell

First Measurements with the LHCb Experiment

The LHCb detector covers the forward angular region complementary to the angular coverage by the general purpose LHC experiments. With the first data, measurements of inclusive charged particle production and V^0 production will be…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Markward Britsch

Prospects for New Physics in CP Violation and Rare Decays at LHCb

LHCb is the heavy flavour precision experiment of the proton-proton Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. It will search for new physics in CP violation and rare decays and is ready for the start-up of the LHC. An overview of its physics…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Pascal Perret

Prospects for gamma measurements at LHCb

LHCb is the dedicated B physics experiment at the LHC and is due to start data taking later this year. Its goal is to search for new physics in very rare processes and make precision measurements of CP violation in B decays. The CKM angle…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-06-01 Ying Ying Li

Very Forward proton-proton interactions with the LHCf detector

The LHCf experiment has been designed to precisely measure very forward neutral particle spectra produced in proton-proton collisions at LHC up to an energy of 14 TeV in the center of mass system. These measurements are of fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-02-26 Alessia Tricomi

A Fixed-Target Programme at the LHC: Physics Case and Projected Performances for Heavy-Ion, Hadron, Spin and Astroparticle Studies

We review the context, the motivations and the expected performances of a comprehensive and ambitious fixed-target program using the multi-TeV proton and ion LHC beams. We also provide a detailed account of the different possible technical…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-03-15 C. Hadjidakis , D. Kikoła , J. P. Lansberg , L. Massacrier , M. G. Echevarria , A. Kusina , I. Schienbein , J. Seixas , H. S. Shao , A. Signori , B. Trzeciak , S. J. Brodsky , G. Cavoto , C. Da Silva , F. Donato , E. G. Ferreiro , I. Hrivnacova , A. Klein , A. Kurepin , F. Lyonnet , Y. Makdisi , C. Lorcé , S. Porteboeuf , C. Quintans , A. Rakotozafindrabe , P. Robbe , N. Topilskaya , A. Uras , J. Wagner , N. Yamanaka , Z. Yang , A. Zelenski

Low-$x$ physics at LHCb

The LHCb detector's forward geometry provides unprecedented kinematic coverage at low Bjorken-$x$. LHCb's excellent momentum resolution, vertex reconstruction, and particle identification enable precision measurements at low transverse…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-07-31 Thomas Boettcher

Letter of intent; Precise measurements of very forward particle production at RHIC

In this paper, we propose an experiment for the precise measurements of very forward particle production at RHIC. The proposal is to install a LHCf-like calorimeter in the ZDC installation slot at one of the RHIC interaction points. By…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-01-07 Y. Itow , H. Menjo , G. Mitsuka , T. Sako , K. Kasahara , T. Suzuki , S. Torii , O. Adriani , A. Tricomi , Y. Goto , K. Tanida

LHCb results from proton ion collisions

Proton-lead and lead-proton data taking during 2013 has allowed LHCb to expand its physics program to heavy ion physics. Results include the first forward measurement of Z production in proton-lead collisions as well as a measurement of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-07-20 Laure Massacrier

A fixed-target programme at the LHC for heavy-ion, hadron, spin and astroparticle physics: AFTER@LHC

Thanks to its multi-TeV LHC proton and lead beams, the LHC complex allows one to perform the most energetic fixed-target experiments ever and to study with high precision pp, pd and pA collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 115 GeV and Pbp and PbA…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-02-20 D. Kikoła , S. J. Brodsky , G. Cavoto , C. Da Silva , F. Donato , M. G. Echevarria , E. G. Ferreiro , C. Hadjidakis , I. Hřivnáčová , A. Klein , A. Kurepin , A. Kusina , J. P. Lansberg , C. Lorcé , F. Lyonnet , Y. Makdisi , L. Massacrier , S. Porteboeuf , C. Quintans , A. Rakotozafindrabe , P. Robbe , W. Scandale , I. Schienbein , J. Seixas , H. S. Shao , A. Signori , N. Topilskaya , B. Trzeciak , A. Uras , J. Wagner , N. Yamanaka , Z. Yang , A. Zelenski

Results and Future Plans on Central Exclusive Production with the LHCb Detector

The LHCb detector and LHC running conditions are ideally suited to measuring central exclusive production. Several recent measurements of exclusive dimuon, single and double charmonia are reviewed. The potential for future measurements…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-09-30 Ronan McNulty

Implications of LHCb measurements and future prospects

During 2011 the LHCb experiment at CERN collected 1.0 fb-1 of sqrt{s} = 7 TeV pp collisions. Due to the large heavy quark production cross-sections, these data provide unprecedented samples of heavy flavoured hadrons. The first results from…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-03-20 LHCb collaboration , A. Bharucha , I. I. Bigi , C. Bobeth , M. Bobrowski , J. Brod , A. J. Buras , C. T. H. Davies , A. Datta , C. Delaunay , S. Descotes-Genon , J. Ellis , T. Feldmann , R. Fleischer , O. Gedalia , J. Girrbach , D. Guadagnoli , G. Hiller , Y. Hochberg , T. Hurth , G. Isidori , S. Jaeger , M. Jung , A. Kagan , J. F. Kamenik , A. Lenz , Z. Ligeti , D. London , F. Mahmoudi , J. Matias , S. Nandi , Y. Nir , P. Paradisi , G. Perez , A. A. Petrov , R. Rattazzi , S. R. Sharpe , L. Silvestrini , A. Soni , D. M. Straub , D. van Dyk , J. Virto , Y. -M. Wang , A. Weiler , J. Zupan. LHCb collaboration , : , R. Aaij , C. Abellan Beteta , A. Adametz , B. Adeva , M. Adinolfi , C. Adrover , A. Affolder , Z. Ajaltouni , J. Albrecht , F. Alessio , M. Alexander , S. Ali , G. Alkhazov , P. Alvarez Cartelle , A. A. Alves , S. Amato , Y. Amhis , L. Anderlini , J. Anderson , R. Andreassen , M. Anelli , R. B. Appleby , O. 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Recent LHCb Results

The LHCb experiment started its physics program with the 37/pb of pp collisions at 7 TeV c.m. energy delivered by the LHC during 2010. The performances and capability of the experiment, conceived for precision measurements in the heavy…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Giacomo Graziani

A brief review of measurements of electroweak bosons at the LHCb experiment in LHC Run 1

The LHCb experiment is one of four major experiments at the LHC. Despite being designed for the study of beauty and charm particles, it has made important contributions in other areas, such as the production and decay of $W$ and $Z$ bosons.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-22 W. Barter